cyberinfrastructure for the solid Earth sciences
Edición de la obra Geoinformatics
| Autor | G. Randy Keller, Chaitanya Baru |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2011 |
| Lugar | Cambridge |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 374 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780521897150 |
| ISBN-10 | 0521897157 |
| OCLC | 729687446 |
| LCCN | 2011456157 |
| Número de Cutter |
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K29g |
Advanced information technology infrastructure is increasingly being employed in the Earth sciences to provide researchers with efficient access to massive central databases and to integrate diversely formatted information from a variety of sources. These geoinformatics initiatives enable manipulation, modeling and visualization of data in a consistent way, and are helping to develop integrated Earth models at various scales, and from the near surface to the deep interior. This book uses a series of case studies to demonstrate computer and database use across the geosciences. Chapters are thematically grouped into sections that cover data collection and management; modeling and community computational codes; visualization and data representation; knowledge management and data integration; and web services and scientific workflows. Geoinformatics is a fascinating and accessible introduction to this emerging field for readers across the solid Earth sciences and an invaluable reference for researchers interested in initiating new cyberinfrastructure projects of their own.